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Public Council Teleconference: Application Rationalization — Hidden Costs and Smart Decisions
November 17 at 11:00 am US/Eastern (GMT-5)
Join Honorio Padrón, of The Hackett Group, who will share the drivers for companies to tackle application rationalization and the results of research that define the hidden cost of complexity. Additionally, we will discuss key decision milestones—to start or not, holding the course steady and fulfilling expectations.
Virtual Desktop Cost-Benefit Analysis — Michael Jacobs, Catlin Group
The analysis contained in this presentation measures the cost of everything from the machines and licenses to the infrastructure for virtual vs. traditional desktop environments.
Honor your best senior team members - Apply for the CIO Ones to Watch Award
Get well-earned public recognition for your top up-and-coming team members, your IT organization and your enterprise. Award winners will be announced, publicized and feted in May 2010, great timing to help attract new IT recruits to your company.
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Ten Secrets to Offshore Outsourcing Success
Top ten tips from United Technologies' IT leaders John Doucette and David Wood.
June 01, 2003 — CIO —
1. Determine whether your IT organization is ripe for outsourcing to India. A centralized application development and maintenance organization is much easier to relocate than a dispersed one.
2. Decide what is strategic to your IT department, and hold on to it.
3. Sign on multiple vendors as a way to keep costs in check and to provide access to a variety of technical skills.
4. Keep a certain percentage of skilled developers in-house to monitor offshore service and rates.
5. If outsourcing to India is a long-term plan, develop a long-term relationship. Don’t manage projects one at a time.
6. Be selective about the vendor’s proposed project leader, and host him stateside. Make sure he is empowered to make key decisions minus the red tape.
7. Spend a month creating a comprehensive transition plan, documenting the knowledge transfer process.
8. Establish rock-solid application development and maintenance processes.
9. Create a robust in-house QA department.
10. Insist that the vendor’s account owner conduct monthly and quarterly reviews, and do the same in-house.
Next Generation Remote Infrastructure Management
Service Level Reporting and Communication
Data Center Cost Analysis
The Future Data Center
Informatica Platform and Integration Competency Centers
Cutting the Cost of Enterprise Databases
IT Consolidation Made Easy
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Architecting Business Intelligence Applications for Change: The Open Solution
Taking a Seat at the Executive Table: The Reality of Virtualization
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